Sir Neville Marriner CH, CBE
19th November 2016

On Saturday 19 November 2016, prior to the memorial service, the bells ran out in memory of Sir Neville Marriner, Founder and Life President of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields.

Born on 15 April 1924 in Lincoln, Sir Neville Marriner studied at the Royal College of Music and the Paris Conservatoire.

He began his career as a violinist, playing first in a string quartet and trio, then in the London Symphony Orchestra. It was during this period that he founded the Academy, with the aim of forming a top-class chamber ensemble from London’s finest players.

Beginning as a group of friends who gathered to rehearse in Sir Neville’s front room, the Academy gave its first performance in its namesake church in 1959. The Academy now enjoys one of the largest discographies of any chamber orchestra worldwide, and its partnership with Sir Neville Marriner is the most recorded of any orchestra and conductor.

St Martin in the Fields, Westminster
Saturday 19th November 2016
1311 changes of Stedman Cinques was rung in 57 minutes

Mary E Gow

Lucinda J Woodward

Rebecca L Sugden

Christopher PG Rimmer

John S Barnes

Jonathan R Galloway

Stephen J F Mitchell

David I Bassford

David Woodward

Jemma L Mills

Benjamin J Meyer

Geraldine R Forster

Prior to the memorial service for Sir Neville Marriner CH, co-founder of the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields